Party On For Finished Audio Fiction

"My girl wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time." - Poet laureate Eddie Murphy

It's party time at ShEvo Studios, the home and HQ of The End! My lovely wife Sheila graduates as a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Learning on Friday, and we've a slew of friends and family descending on us for the next few days. If you happen to be in Phoenix on Friday night, you're welcome to come to the party! I'm serious. Just reply to this email and I'll send you the RSVP link. The more the merrier! 

Huge thanks to Mario Portela, creator of ENKI: Tales from the Past and E.C.H.O., for becoming the latest Supporting Creative of The End. Mario is doing some pretty cool stuff with LLM/ML tools that might change your mind about—or at least soften your stance on—how audio fiction creators can use LLM and ML tools creatively. And by "your mind" I mean "my mind." Give his shows a listen before you judge what he's doing. (Though I still can't bring myself to call our current tech artificial intelligence.)

Regardless of your personal stance on technology and tools, please consider being like Mario and becoming a supporter of The End. I love the 44 of you (yeah, that's it, just 44) who contribute on an annual basis, but I'd like that number to grow by... er, a lot. So if you think $25 per year is a dirt-cheap way to support The End as we continue to curate finished audio fiction for you, visit the Support page and join them!

It's a light issue today, probably because I've been doing more party-prep than outreach this week. But that just means more attention to the shows in this issue, right?

Let's get into it, shall we?

- Evo